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Robinson-Spangler North Carolina Room Image Collection

Last Street Car

A group of dignitaries whorode the last streetcar in Charlotte posing in front of a streetcar. Taken in March 1938.
Donated by Jean Ivey, wife of George Ivey, Jr. on 12 September 1974 Physical Description: 8 x 10 black and white Publisher:

Carolina Theater Lobby

Director Sam Woods directed actors Robert Montgomery and Elliot Nugent in So This is College. It was was released in 1929.

Physical Description: 8x 10 glossy, black and white

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The Square

View of the Square in uptown Charlotte Charlotte businesses and street near the Square including Garibaldi and Bruns Jewelers and the Independence  Building on pedistrians on the sidewalk make this one of the most vibrant images from this period. Physical Description: 8 x 10 black and white with 4 x 5 negative Publisher:

Fifth Mecklenburg County Courthouse

Charlotte City Hall located at 600 East Trade Street was first occupied in 1927.

Physical Description: 3 x 5 postcard

Publisher: Curteichcolor

Osborne Oak

The Osborne Oak was located at West Trade and Graham Street. It was more than a 100 years old when this photograph was taken in 1906. The home belonged to Dr. Sam Hayes who married an Osborne. A horse drawn cart is in front.

Physical Description: Original 3 x 3

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School Children

Physical Description: 3x5 (heavy silver nitrate visible)

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Tryon Street (South)

View of South Tryon Street looking North  from the 200 Block with the Piedmont Fire Insurance Building on the left. (Features three arches.)

Physical Description: 5 x 7

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Machpelah Presbyterian Church

Machpelah Presbyterian Church in Lincoln County was built in 1848 on land donated by Violet G. and Moses Winslow Alexander.
The illustration is from General Joseph Graham and his Papers on North Carolina Revolutionary History (1904).
 

Physical Description: From an original sketch made in 1902

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School Children

Physical Description: 3x5 (heavy silver nitrate visible)

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